Indonesia payments startup Xendit takes on South-East Asia after unicorn status

JAKARTA (Bloomberg): Xendit, an Indonesian digital payments firm that recently reached a US$1 billion valuation, plans to expand to the rest of South-East Asia.

The company will also seek to broaden its product offering in the next few years to help businesses verify customers and let them manage merchants, Tessa Wijaya, co-founder and chief operating officer, said in a Bloomberg Television interview with Haslinda Amin and Rishaad Salamat.